The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious , will never equal . The lines on Italy , on Venice , on Convents , have all that grace for which I contend , as an ingredient distinct from the general beauties ...
... poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious , will never equal . The lines on Italy , on Venice , on Convents , have all that grace for which I contend , as an ingredient distinct from the general beauties ...
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... poet afferts the dignity of his profeffion , laments his poor encouragement , and infinuates to the Prince what a brave figure he would have made in verfe , had he been as good a patron as he was a fubject to the muses ! This coldness ...
... poet afferts the dignity of his profeffion , laments his poor encouragement , and infinuates to the Prince what a brave figure he would have made in verfe , had he been as good a patron as he was a fubject to the muses ! This coldness ...
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... poet are diftinguished among the ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness and variety of their natures . His works , in the language of modern times , would have been entitled mifcellanies , or ...
... poet are diftinguished among the ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness and variety of their natures . His works , in the language of modern times , would have been entitled mifcellanies , or ...
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... poet then proceeds to enumerate various omens , to which we know the ancients were greatly attached , and in which they implicitly confided : By a prophetic poppy - leaf I found You chang'd affection , for it gave no found , Though in ...
... poet then proceeds to enumerate various omens , to which we know the ancients were greatly attached , and in which they implicitly confided : By a prophetic poppy - leaf I found You chang'd affection , for it gave no found , Though in ...
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... poet from being admirable in his way , " admirabilis in fuo genere , " as he exprefsly calls him in the fame sentence ; nay , he knew that he could not have been admirable without this rufticity , and would certainly have thought very ...
... poet from being admirable in his way , " admirabilis in fuo genere , " as he exprefsly calls him in the fame sentence ; nay , he knew that he could not have been admirable without this rufticity , and would certainly have thought very ...
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